Skirt-marker.



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WILLIAM n. WALKER, or sen rnaucrsco, camronura.

. skier-MARKER.

terraces.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Application filed Dece mber12, 1916. Serial No. 136,421.

To all whom it may concern: 1

. Be it known that I, WILLIAMD. 'WALKER, a citizen of the United States,residing at San Francisco, inthe county of San F rancisco and State ofalifornia. have invented certain new and useful Improvements inSkirt-IVIarkei-s; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

In. the use of skirt markers of the type which embody substantiallyparallel blades adapted to receive the skirt to be marked therebetweenconsiderable inaccuracy has resulted owing to the fact that the materialof the skirt often moves relatively to the blades after the latter havebeen pressed together and before the act of marking the skirt isindulged in. It is therefore the purpose of my invention to provide askirt marker of the type referred to embodying an improved constructionwhich will positively eliminate movement of the material relatively tothe blades after the latter have been pressed together even though thepressure on the blades should be relaxed to an appreciable degree andthrough the medium of this improved construction I am enabled to assureabsolute accuracy in the marking of a skirt for the purpose of turninghems or for the application of trimming.

It is also my purpose to provide a skirt marker which will enable theoperation of marking the skirt to be accomplished with great rapidityand which at the same time will embody an exceedingly simple structurecapable of bein manufactured and sold at a relatively small cost.

With the above and other purposes in view the invention consists in thedetails of construction and in the arrangement and combination of partsto be hereinafter more fully described and particularly pointed out inthe appended claims.

In describing my invention in detail reference will be had to theaccompanying drawings wherein like characters of reference denotecorresponding parts in the sev eral views, and in which- Figure 1 is aperspective view showing the manner of using my improved skirt marker;

Fig. 2, an edge view of the marker;

Fig. 3, a top view of the marker;

Fig. 4, a section on the line 44 of Fig. 1, and r Fig. 5, a section onthe line 5-5 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings my improved skirt marker is shown constructedfrom a single length of 'metal bent upon itself to form parallel bladesA and B and lateral extensions 10 and 11 at the bottom of said bladesrespectively, said extensions being secured to a base 12 by suitablefasteningdevices 13. The blade A is provided with a plurality of spacedtransversely directed recesses 14 which open through one longitudinaledge of said blade. A longitudinal groove 15 is formed on the inner sideof the blade A adjacent the edge thereof remote from the recesses 14.This groove may be formed by stamping the structural metal or in anyother desired manner. The recesses 14 may be situated any desireddistance apart, such distance being preferably a fraction of an inch,and in this instance I have shown the recesses one-half an inch apartand I provide a suitable scale 16 on the blade A increasing upwardly toindicate the distance of a given recess from the under face of the base12. On the blade B I provide a plurality of transverse ribs 17 whichcorrespond in number to the number of recesses 14 and are so positionedthat when the blades A and B are pressed together the ribs 17 will enterrespective recesses 14. I also provide on the inner side of the blade Ba longitudinal rib 18 which is likewise adapted to enter the groove 15when the blades A and B are pressed together. By stamping the rib 18 andthe groove 15 and the resultant rib produced by the latter I am enabledto greatly strengthen the blades A and B and at the same time utilizethe interfitting relation of these parts to firmly hold the materialagainst movement relatively to the blades when the latter are pressedtogether. In other words the groove 15 and rib 18 perform a doublefunction.

In use the base 12 is placed upon the floor with the blades A and Bextending upright with the skirt C inserted therebetween as clearlyshown in Fig. 1. The blades are pressed together to clamp the skirt. Theribs 17 will force the material of the skirt through the recesses 14when such material can be marked with facility in a convenient manner atany desired recess. This operation is repeated around the skirt untilthe Patented Dec. 4., 191% -:ed to enter the openings respectively Whenthe membersare pressed together. i

2. A skirt marker comprising substantially parallel blade membersadaptedto receivea skirt to bemarked therebetween, one

of said members having spaced recesses therein opening through onelongitudinal edge of the ,member, and @ribs on the othermemberradaptedtto-enter the recesses respecgroove in its inner face anda tively When the members are pressed together.

3. A skirt marker comprising substantially parallel blade rmembersadapted to receive a skirt to be marked therebetween, one of saidmembers having a longitudinal plurality of spaced transversely extendingopenings, a longitudinal rib .on the inner face of the other member, anda plurality of transverse ribs on the inner face of the last namedmember, said longitudinal and transverse ribs being adapted to enter thelongitudinal groove and transverse openings when the members are pressedtogether.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in the presence oftWo Witnesses.

VVILIJIAM D. WALKER.

Witnesses A. M. BROOKE, J. I. BROOKE.

Copies nft'his .patentmay he robtainedlfor fivecents each, byeddressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

